ISLAND BAY SUB-BRANCH
A meeting of members. of the Island Bay sub-branch of the New Zealand Red Cros* Society was held on Tuesday night. A class consisting of twenty women and twelve young men is now undergoing training in first-aid, home nursing, hygiene, and sanitation, air-raid and auti-gas precautions, and will sit for examination for first aid certificate* in about four weeks. It is hoped to enrol men and women to farm other classes and thus have v the nucleus ol strong detachments In the district in the event of emergency. Shopkeepers in the district ar* co-operating by enrolling members and ln collecting funds, which are urgently needed. The election of officers resulted as follows:— President, Jlrs. C. E. Proctar; vice-presidents, Jlr. J. G. Jlarshall, Jlrs. W. P. Sanders, Mle* Jl. Jl. Foster; chairman, air. D. P. Hewlett;, honorary secretary-treasurer, Jlr. E. Brindle; executive, Jlessrs. C. E. Proctor, R. M. Legge, A. Key, H. Cholcroft, W. J. Binns; Jlesdamea Power, Cocker, Kay, Smythe, Hamilton, Mcllroy, Davis, Legge, Ham, and Wilkinson (2).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 15
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171ISLAND BAY SUB-BRANCH Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 15
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